Outsiped but won

SYS;-- · Guest

hello,
I did win an item, but instead of "won" status, I had an "outsniped" status.
The winning bid met the exact max bidding price I entered.

As outsniped I should not have won.
Did this already happen ?

Thanks

mario · Site Admin Joined: 03 Oct 2006 Posts: 7131

Let me see. What is the item id?

Guest · Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 1:49 pm Post subject:

item id was : 200472318152

mario · Site Admin Joined: 03 Oct 2006 Posts: 7131

Well, this happened because you entered a bid of 27.796. eBay then rounded this to 27.80.

After placing your bid, Gixen compared the current price (which was 27.80) with your maximum bid, and concluded that there must have been a subsequent snipe after yours, as the current price was higher than your maximum bid.

So it's a bug on part of Gixen, and I could fix this, but I don't consider it a major issue, so it might be a while. Just enter your bid in the future with two decimals and this will not happen.

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Guest · Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 2:20 pm Post subject:

As a matter of fact, I noticed I entered a bid with three decimals but I as I wanted to correct it (to a two decimals one) I did press "enter" instead. And let it snipe so.

Thanks a lot.